Public Health Madison & Dane County, Public Health Madison & Dane County

09/07 PHMDC Responds to Recent Flooding
07/11 How We Monitor Beach Conditions

Keeping up with ever changing beach conditions is a full-time job for our environmental health lab in the summer.
05/11 What is Public Health 3.0?

Public Health has been transforming rapidly over the past 30 years. In the late 19th century and most of the 20th century in the era of "Public Health 1.0," our focus was on infectious disease prevention and control.

12/13/2018 Suicide and Opioid Deaths Continue to Rise in Wisconsin and the Nation
The Centers for Disease Control reports that, again, life expectancy declined in 2017, driven largely by deaths from drug overdoses and suicides.
12/05/2018 All Madison Libraries Will Have Narcan On-Site By End of Year
70 library employees have volunteered to take a training to identify the symptoms of an overdose and administer Narcan, which reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.
12/03/2018 Public Health Launches Violence Prevention Initiative
More than 90 attendees attended the launch to begin working together on a public health approach to violence.

11/28 Three weeks left to enroll in the Health Insurance Marketplace for 2019 coverage
Open enrollment for getting health insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace (Affordable Care Act) began...
10/24 Sandbag Disposal & Collection
Residents with sandbags have four options on how to manage them, including curbside collection that will begin on...
10/23 Childhood Lead Poisoning: A Public Health Concern
Lead poisoning is one of the most preventable diseases affecting children, and yet there are still children in...

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